The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB) is planning to establish a mobile examination malpractice tribunal.
The Board in its Weekend Bulletin on Monday, stated that the tribunal was aimed at curbing examination malpractice and other plethora of infractions against the conduct of its examination.
JAMB stated that the tribunal will deal decisively with criminal aspects of infractions.
It noted that the decision is aimed at fostering a headlong approach for tackling the menace of examination malpractice and is part of the resolutions reached at the recently conducted policy meeting held in Abuja.
It added that though the Board had leveraged on technology to substantially stem the incidence of examination malpractices and other unwholesome practices, the measure would take the campaign a notch higher to holistically address the problem.
“When the mobile examination malpractice tribunal comes on board, such problems as impersonation, mass cheating by syndicates, prolonged investigation and prosecution, impersonation and substitution of real candidates by paid examination takers, fraudulent activities of CBT owners, among others, would be a thing of the past,” it noted.
JAMB also announced that as part of its continuous innovations to improve on the conduct of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination(UTME), arrangements are in the pipeline to incorporate bring your own device(BYOD).
Under the BYOD arrangements, it explained that candidates are allowed to use their own personal devices to connect to the JAMB network and access the examination.
“The approach has the capacity not only to lower Capital investment but also enhance digital literacy,” it said.
The Board also stated that fake results slips and admission letters can be detected through download of the JAMB QR scanner.
“The JAMB scanner would scan these documents with a view to authenticating and verifying the security features on the documents such as the name, registration number, institution/programme and genuineness of documents paraded with a view to preventing unsuspecting members of the public from being defrauded,” the Board said.